Ian Cushing

"Books are dangerous. This is why repressive regimes try to exile and kill those who write them, confiscate and close libraries and bookshops, and ban and burn books that contradict their narratives and the image they want to present to the outside world" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢Literacy in primary classrooms conference

📅⌚ 9.30am, Saturday, 13 September.

Discover practical and inspiring ideas to enhance your classroom.

Join our workshops on inclusion, reading for pleasure, and much more.

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Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃

Express Newspaper front page with image of starving child FOR PITY'S SAKE STOP THIS The suffering of little Muhammad clinging on to life in Gaza hell shames us all

This is what happens in a genocide when it’s too late to stop it and the denial and humanitarian camouflage have already killed thousands and thousands more are on the brink because of a criminal regime. This is when the enablers jump ship. It’s a stage in #genocide.

academic promotions are always a collective effort and i am so thankful to all those who have supported me in my promotion to Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics. 🎉 now it's my turn to do more to support early career researchers and push the discipline in new directions 🌸🫶

i asked my 5 year old what language is and he said it’s like when words come out of your body and into someone else’s 💕

Race Ethnicity and Education are advertising for a new editor-in-chief / team of editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

equating sexual harassment with being working class is such an effective way of being both misogynistic *and* classist

The police have arrested more than 20 people in London for carrying placards that said: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". Among those removed by police was Reverend Sue Parfitt, who is 83

that means so much, thank you! sorry we didn’t get to chat but another time I hope :)

15 amazing teachers came together over two days and explored how to reject deficit thinking and dismantle white linguistic supremacy in schools 🌟

a slide that says linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers, led by Ian Cushing, April Baker-Bell and Cerys Wrigley

it’s day 2 of our summer school for teachers on linguistic justice and April Baker-Bell is here in Manchester from Michigan to lead sessions on anti-Black linguistic racism and pro-Black language pedagogy 💫

me and @snelljulia.bsky.social are doing a joint keynote at this UKLA/NEU conference, talking about futures of linguistic justice and designing linguistically just schools 💜

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...

Forthcoming Conferences Winter 2024 LATE Conference: ‘What Space for English?’ on 7th December

londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc... Talking about Oracy this weekend with great talks from @iancushing.bsky.social and Su Hippesley (UCL) and workshops from Let’s Think in English, and English teachers from across London. Still tickets left!

thanks so much :)

Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy Oracy is a hot topic in England’s education landscape, increasingly deployed as part of a bipartisan theory of social justice which claims that improved abilities in spoken language can afford work...

I’m also uncomfortable with uncritical discourse on oracy. @iancushing.bsky.social’s work is outstanding on this issue. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education Racism is pervasive within the lives of racially minoritised pre-service teachers in England, but little work has explored how perceptions about language feature here. Based on interviews and works...

I’m sorry you had that experience. 27 years later unfortunately it still very much happens www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

omg adding to syllabus immediately

Forthcoming Conferences Winter 2024 LATE Conference: ‘What Space for English?’ on 7th December

Don’t forget: Talking About Oracy from @lateteachers.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk IOE July 5th!
londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...

@draperel.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @natefeed.bsky.social
@headofenglish.bsky.social
@runrober.bsky.social

thanks so much Paul!

Recommended: Teacher Education: Time to listen to the experts again (UK) In the US, teacher education as well as teachers have suffered a long history of low respect and support. A significant aspect of that dynamic, I think, is that the profession in over 70% women. Du…

Recommended: Teacher Education: Time to listen to the experts again (UK) radicalscholarship.com/2025/06/27/r...

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University-based teacher educators say they have been treated dreadfully by central government - now a new report from @iancushing.bsky.social is calling for them to have a much more significant role in ITE again www.timeshighereducation.com/news/relax-s... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

Oracy, deficit thinking, and linguistic in/justice Dr Ian Cushing et al Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics Manchester Metropolitan University MMU logo

the London Association for the Teaching of English conference is on Saturday 5 July and is all about oracy. i am giving keynote on oracy, deficit thinking, and linguistic in/justice 🌸 londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...

Student Research Prize - UK Literacy Association Our award for an outstanding student dissertation at undergraduate, postgraduate or higher degree level.

she should ask her supervisor to nominate this to the UKLA dissertation prize ukla.org/research-pri...

cool! and @snelljulia.bsky.social ! big congrats to your daughter 💫💫

Government offers three clues that it is set to plough ahead with cuts to disability benefits Labour appears set to plough ahead with billions of pounds of cuts a year to disability benefits, after this week’s spending review failed to offer any suggestion of a U-turn. The government had al…

Labour appears set to plough ahead with billions of pounds of cuts a year to disability benefits, after this week’s spending review failed to offer any suggestion of a U-turn.
#SpendingReview #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
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Preliminary development of the deaf childhood experiences scale Abstract. We describe here the initial creation and validation of a tool designed to quantify certain unique life experiences of deaf individuals. The Deaf

New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social

The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.

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these teachers were 🔥. all working to resist linguistic injustice in spite of dominant deficit discourses about language, individualistic theories of social change, oppressive policy pressures, and inadequate school management 💕